'The Politics of Innovation'

Posted July 26, 2016

External Article: Inside Higher Ed

Mark Zachary Taylor, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs was featured in “‘The Politics of Innovation,’” in a feature about his new book of the same name.

Excerpt:

The subtitle of Mark Zachary Taylor’s new book, The Politics of Innovation (Oxford University Press), asks why some countries are better than others at science and technology. He argues that the answer lies in politics and proposes a theory of “creative insecurity,” arguing that innovation rates should be higher in countries in which external threats outweigh domestic tensions.

“S&T progress creates winners and losers, and the losers resort to politics to slow innovation,” Taylor, an associate professor of political science at Georgia Institute of Technology, writes in the book’s introduction. “However, external threats increase political support for S&T and thereby counteract domestic political resistance to innovation.”

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